Originally posted by iconrad
My high school has about 4 or 5 computer labs with dells, and they just bought all the teachers a new dell laptop but the good news is thy just put out a bid for 30 dual 1.43 GHz P4 They will help to teach a new class next year, Web Development. I only wish I wasn't a senior. also our school has air port base station that is close to the cafeteria and we will be getting at least one iBook cart. So I imagine that more and more of this school district will get macs.
i didn't know that web development was good with a mac...many pc types swear by pc for web stuff but do admit macs are good for photoshop, quark, and illustrator stuff
the jc here has all dells for the web publishing class and before that, i think they had compaqs...i don't think that they ever used macs that i know of
i am going to try and get into an illustrator class...just one scheduled and the school never seems to think it is important enough to teach more than just a small handful of mac classes
the department head also happens to be the only teacher most of the time and he is also the lab tech...the school won't hire a second full time person in the mac/art department and the school has more than 10,000 students
ps - i don't know what the fascination in our county is with dells and education...i was an onsite dell tech three years ago and while dells are better than compaqs (who i also worked for), they are not as good as sony but a heck of a lot cheaper
personally, i think hp and toshiba are as good as dell, even though they are a little bit more pricey (by less than 10 percent)
i thinks dell's business model is what is what makes them number one in computer hardware since sony, apple, alienware, and others clearly make a better, but not cheaper, product